Back to the drawing board or Plan B? We have no idea that this was Plan A- he could be covering his tracks since he was out looking while on contract. I have full confidence that Coach will find the right fit for the program…

MaizeNBlueJ

Maybe he wasn't offered the job.

According to the Fort Wayne News Sentinel, he wouldn't say whether he was offered, only that Beilein had talked with him about the position.

Good call MaizeBlue3…let's not get ahead of ourselves here. The report Dylan posted is 2nd hand from a local news station. I live in Southern California and the local news here is bad, I can only imagine what it is like in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area.

Based on some tea leaves I beginning to think Beilein reached out to Fife to gauge interest and Fife may have expressed to JB that he wants to stay. That is something that is much different than Fife actually going the the formal interview process and getting a legit job offer.

AG2

Maybe I have maize-and-blue shades on, but this smacks of Michigan-hatin' on the part of “Indiana's News Center.” If Fife wouldn't confirm he was offered the job, how would these guys know? Sounds like they just want to make Michigan look bad.

Being from Fort Wayne, Indiana's News Center is the ABC affiliate and it's pretty legit interms of news and reporting in my experience. Their sports guys have been there for a long time and while I'm sure they would want to spin this in favor of the home squad, I'd seriously dobt thy'd misquote someone FWIW.